Abstract

This article essentially, explores and describes the seeming fairness of a disciplinary process in the Lesotho public service and, advances guiding principles that can be used by the public service disciplinary authorities to achieve a fairer experience of the disciplinary process in the public service. It also endeavours to discover public officers' legitimate expectations within the public service laws. It is based on the legislative provisions and judicial pronouncements as well as literature on human resources' studies. It concludes by highlighting tenets that should be observed in handling public officers' cases so as to ensure that they do not render the disciplinary processes traumatic, unfair and not reliable, but rather, to make discipline more effectively.